This paper works on the assumption that "Camp" is a mode of feeling and communicating which is able to inhabit positions that are culturally fraught with shame without having to either hope for a "healing" of shame or having to deny or ignore it. Ronald Firbank (1886 – 1926) was one of the masters of camp as a literary form and the talk will present some of his works in terms of their simultaneous evocation of and resistance to the interpellations of shame.